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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: ranger3 on June 01, 2009, 10:38:36 pm

Title: Z splice
Post by: ranger3 on June 01, 2009, 10:38:36 pm

Do you have to back a Osage slpliced stave?

Title: Re: Z splice
Post by: Dano on June 01, 2009, 10:56:01 pm

Nope.

Title: Re: Z splice
Post by: adb on June 02, 2009, 12:46:32 am

No, but everyone I've done, I've backed it. I think it looks better, but you can still hide the splice with a grip of some sort.

Title: Re: Z splice
Post by: ranger3 on June 02, 2009, 08:55:41 am

Thanks

Title: Re: Z splice
Post by: Eric Krewson on June 02, 2009, 09:29:34 am

I splice almost every bow I make. I rarely use a 4" splice and often use a 3" or 3 1/2" splice because it is easier to hide completely under the leather. Because I am using thinner billets I always add a piece to the belly of the handle for more wood to shape into the handle and to add more glue surface to my splice. I use Urac and have never had a splice fail.

Here is a splice with the extra wood glued on.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v181/ekrewson/bow%20making/limbreplacement11.jpg)